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# Frequently Asked Questions
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_Last updated: 2023-12-17_
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[Last updated]: https://mau.dev/andreijiroh.dev/website/-/commits/main/markdown/faq.md
!!! warning "This page is a working draft"
I'll be compiling some more answers to frequently asked questions about me in the future. In the meanwhile, if your
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answer is not here, [let me know ](./contact/index.md ) or search the internet.
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## Disability and neurodivergence
!!! note "Dive deeper"
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I may expect to get questions about autism in general, so I compile these resources ahead of time.
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* **Personal user manual**: [Neurodivergence and Disability ](./user-manual/neurodivergence-and-disability.md )
* **Community resources**: [Public Neurodiversity Support Center (PNDSC) ](https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center ), plus resources at [Awesome Neurodiversity ](https://linktr.ee/AwesomeND ) list
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## Personal basics
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### Pronouns?
My pronouns are he/they, but I'm more than welcome to use gender-neutral pronouns instead.
### Can I send you a physical letter or gift?
For privacy reasons, I can't publish my home address for obvious privacy reasons, but
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I'll reconsider it in the future. If you still want to, options are:
* covering purchases on my wishlist on [Gift App ](https://giftapp.com/ajhalili2006 )
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## All things free/libre and open-source
### Are you an open-source/free software absolutist?
Not necessary as hard as RMS, though I still have to do my own homework on its culture, among other things like self-hosting and defense in depth in terms of security and privacy.
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The only problems here why I can't go full in would be the toxicity of the tech/open-source spaces and the same reason
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why you still need to use Windows solely at work (bless anyone setting their dev environments in Windows containers).
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### Why haven't you reviewed my merge request or email patch?
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I'm so sorry. Life keeps getting in the way of me being a responsive maintainer,
especially as neurodivergent [getting hit by the burnout bus] and experiencing
mental health struggles. Your hard work deserves better!
[getting hit by the burnout bus]: #can -you-tell-me-more-about-your-autistic-burnout
By the way, please don't harass me over DMs like Duo for not reviewing your patch
(although in case of emergency patches like seucrity-related ones,
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please be respectful).
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### Thoughts on Business Source License, Server-Side Public License, and similiar non-OSS licenses?
_(This is focused on Elastic, MongoDB, HashiCorp and the like, not dual-licensed software like GitLab.)_
We're not talking about copyright assignment clauses in CLAs yet, but while copyright consoliation
simplifies maintainers' life when relicensing, the problem here in open-core companies is
that contributions are being "milked" by capitalistic forces (pardon the NSFW references)
for profit at expense of the community.
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## The Bloody Hell PH
### Do you plan to dig anyone's grave (past in this case) to get them cancelled to hell and back?
Wish I could say no thanks on doing a lot of OSINT, but Twitter's (now X) been a hot mess lately and
while writing every single internet shitfuckery (not just people getting cancelled) costs more spoons than in school while masking hard. Sure, I may cover some of them,
but there's a lot of stuff happening across the interwebs and I can't do the homework alone.
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### So if you don't intend to dig anyone's grave, [then why are you digging?][toh-eclipse-lake-transcript]
[toh-eclipse-lake-transcript]: https://theowlhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Eclipse_Lake/Transcript#:~:text=Then%20why%20are%20you%20digging%3F
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!!! warning "Pardon The Owl House spoilers, I may inadvently roleplay as [Hunter] here."
[Here's the clip][clipyard-eclipse-lake] if you need some context. While it may be edging
into suicide here from the context of autistic trauma (hint: mostly due to [Belos manipulating him][autistic-trauma-session-belos])
Possible reasons including: TBD
[clipyard-eclipse-lake]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfeJiilDPp8
[hunter]: https://theowlhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Hunter
[autistic-trauma-session-belos]: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/p006uq/can_we_talk_about_belos_manipulation_on_hunter/
